PM Report: Bitter Campaign Fight for Older Voters

9/28/2010 5:23PM

Democrats and Republicans are waging an intense fight over older voters, who turn out reliably in midterm elections and whose fears have been stoked by the battle over health care. Naftali Bendavid and David Weidner discuss. Also, Conor Dougherty discusses a new U.S. Census report showing a rising number of couples who decide to wait to get married.

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... all the same year as are less than ride using scare tactics to swing the vote ... may opt will tell you about it right here right now on the news of the afternoon and welcome I'm Simon Constable joining on the site we updated one ... must be better Izturis like thanks for joining us it is there and it's always fun but go straight down a washing DC when Naftali Bendavid is standing by I'm not selling intensified when waste of Issing is ... now is this playing out ... well what had what's happening is that Democrats are accusing Republicans of wheat to cut Social Security and Republicans accusing Democrats of having already gutted Medicare ... and so we're seeing this fight over this very reliable very sought after group ... with each side point to scare the other about what it would do with the kowtow ... content and and and why was this group silent on what so special about seeing as ... robust as anybody else in society ... well they tend to rely we go to the polls you know a lot of voters younger voters in particular they may go for big exciting election like the one we have less time ... with a much less likely to go for midterm elections like the one that's coming up ... senior citizens of the other hand has his history shows they tend to go to the polls in a manner Watts ago reliably Vivo reliably and that makes them some overpriced party at ... her strategists on both sides to an end in a news story highlights Anna Apple in Wisconsin the guts to take in Henry Therabel tells about them what they're saying about each other ... well you know it's it's a battle every We is playing out in the streets across the country this has happened to be a good example Congressman Steve Khaykin a Democrat in saying that his opponent reasonable ... I would cut Social Security has an add to that fact ... now on the other side actually the most honored noticeable that is coming not from Renewable himself ... from a group called sixty plus explain the law to Congressional District spending millions of dollars in their accusing Congressman Kagan just what their kids a lot of other Democrats of wanted to cut five hundred billion dollars from Medicare and in fact a party having done so ... for the health of the past two one ... write to Naftali ... looking from the sound of those plans is on a little bit ... I'd say exaggerated to say the least ... but as our shred of truth in in some of these accusations that they're making ... false like a lot Hastings Umina Beach shred of truth is probably a good way to put you know I'm the odd Democratic health care plan does cut up to five hundred billion dollars depending on who you talk to ... from any carried by Democrats say that that is very much taken care of and cost savings and eliminating ... wasteful parts of the program and allow Republicans to favor some form of what could be called privatization ... numbers the doomsday scenarios painted by both sides are flatly rejected ... by the two parties I see how the situation with is a kernel of truth and both sides ... are probably a certain exaggerations well ... and ... when it comes ... to what they want any of those changes that you just talked about what they really affect ... younger voters more so than alter voters were older voters so concerned ... about the program ... well that's certainly true and ally cases you know the Republicans to talk about allowing people to put some of their Social Security taxes into private accounts ... they talk about that the workers were fifty five and younger ... and similarly some of the changes to Medicare are going to occur over time ... but the truth is that political advertising is a blunt instrument and here you have people yelling at each other via cutting Medicare purses gutting social security ... in some of the subtleties I think it lost in translation ... Canada is interesting thing is that a white comes to saving money and run says it has that money and want to try to do a bit of events that ... never happened ... I never have any white thank you very much Naftali Bendavid ... with a Wall Street down ... Washington D C when not send the MarketsHub suddenly see why when he joined by Mike Casey caps Mike Casey in the gang weekdays at eleven ... 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I miss that ... and if it gained them belonging to the U S stocks to rise out of that here ... if it has to come in and by the fine to keep it down in ... the stock in a cycle to doing more quantitative easing to reward the same time retailers is the ability of some sort of July by the work which is white gold breakthrough three fifteen hundred close above that level to as a stinkbombs on all of lives thank you very much Mike Casey caps the markets are Michael and Diane Flamini and trust that that the gang weekdays at eleven joining us now Commodore see from the economics team the dream same ... as we called him ... so you've got some interesting statistics on on Maxim on the changing trends in mage ... for a particular demographic twenty five to thirty four year olds ... more people ... and I need to ... have a ... band night tells about this fascinating ... basically people are putting off marriage or just for growing altogether ... and the recession has hastened this that this is obviously a long-term trend ... to this year for the first time ... we the adults twenty five to thirty four ... more of them have never been married that are married and the balance would be a very small bounce of the people were divorced widowed ... when a word ... yet was better than what is the one we think the economy is playing into this to some degree people put off marriage when they're ... right you win when they are a little less secure in their life and maybe it's harder to a ... tube to get someone to remarry when you're without a job ... but weddings are expensive they look at her three daughters aren't visiting Chinese Foreign ... yes I'm planning at the wedding and enlarge ... so I'm I'm I'm I'm too skinny get an off the thirty three cents on a given right and you know ... the trend a little money was cited on top of a trend today is the education with many many more women are more educated and have a bin and pass on stocks having an impact how is that How's that working as more women in the workforce in more women I'm you know higher educational attainment among swimming more women in college were in graduate from college ... so they basically are just putting off marriage and putting off ... and starting families to focus on careers ... and that you know that's been the biggest noticeable change since the seventies in terms of ... you know I mean I'm sure there are lots of changing attitudes and things like that for the candidate issues in utility outliving suggests ... but not being mapped ... as the men and women are ... forgoing the top ... no not at all not on it and in living together as a trial run a mean look we know tons of people who who would say when you think I would like to married to someone for the defendant understood all that weird quirks in its crazy so ... practical ... reasons it has fined ... the sum of the things there isn't a good education levels and in the past and the US and today it's different that it's not ... that is all the signs that impediment to ... young adults with high school diplomas all less on what what more married to the Senate and college graduates and now that's flat to lower than the overall numbers down what's happening that ... basically we use to be is that college people are people with ejhickey he graduated from college had this ... I don't know where you caught that they were much more willing to postpone marriage ... then and people who just graduated from high school and I suspect that it something to do it sooner you you graduate high school if you go right into the workforce any sort of ... for Uni don't get that postponed adolescents have come in over the ... continued adolescents of college ... and but now we're seeing is for the flip is that the college people is the more married ones court college educated people out there and diced one ... one one one and is still money to some likely to get my ... at least once in a lifetime of good news for everyone who wants to get ... into it doesn't matter what is the price rises the UK and actually have to be that of a long and happy ... life together under Escala Dorothy thank you much that when I'm Simon Qassam on that's it ... that's our show ... that's the new supper tonight comeback eight thirty tomorrow with Kelly Evans laugh all the news you need to know before the opening bell Abbott great night ... 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